Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Ubuntu Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 6 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.46% - 0.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.42% - 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £279 - £176
25th Percentile £322 - £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £498
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.51%
75th Percentile £522 - £570
90th Percentile £576 - -
England median daily rate £475 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £69.38
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.38
England median hourly rate £68.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +5.84%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Ubuntu falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 248 259 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.02% 16.85% 19.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 123 240
10th Percentile £169 £213 £155
25th Percentile £200 £276 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +2.27% +16.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £578
90th Percentile - - £678
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 37 40
10th Percentile £16.98 £44.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.91 £55.65 £14.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +225.00% -60.00%
75th Percentile £65.13 - £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £66.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £47.83
% change year-on-year -56.26% +20.22% +100.04%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Ubuntu as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Ubuntu in the East of England

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the East of England

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 6 £413 - 7
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
2 5 (83.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) GitLab
2 4 (66.67%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Centre
1 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (83.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) CentOS
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
1 5 (83.33%) ITSM
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) ServiceNow
1 5 (83.33%) VMware